AI Tech Lead (Manager)

GitHub Platform Owner

Accountable for the design, governance, security posture, and continuous evolution of the GitHub platform. This pivotal role operates as the product owner, architect, and subject-matter expert (SME) for GitHub, responsible for defining standards, guardrails, and enterprise ways of working. A primary objective is to ensure GitHub functions as a controlled, auditable, and developer-centric enterprise delivery platform, especially as Global Advisory expands its use of pipeline-based security, AI-assisted development, and GitHub-native workflows. This position establishes clear accountability to maintain a secure, auditable, and scalable GitHub platform into the future, addressing the risks associated with part-time or non-expert ownership. This is a full-time ownership, architecture, and governance role focused on outcomes, and is explicitly not a platform support, administration, or ticket-driven operational function.

Key Accountabilities

• 30% - Platform Ownership & Architecture: Own the end-to-end GitHub platform design, including organization structure, repository standards, branching strategies, and integration architecture. Establish and maintain clear, enforceable standards for GitHub configuration and developer ways of working. Act as the final decision authority for platform configuration, feature adoption, and architectural direction.
• 25% - Security, Risk & Control Design: Design and govern the security and control model for GitHub, including pipeline-based security, secrets protection, and code scanning. Partner with GISG and GQRM to ensure controls are preventive, consistently enforced, and audit-ready. Define remediation patterns and ensure audit findings are converted into platform improvements.
• 20% - Developer Enablement & Platform Quality: Define GitHub-native ways of working to reduce variability and improve delivery velocity. Design and evolve reusable workflows, automation patterns, and GitHub Copilot Agent strategies as shared platform capabilities. Ensure the platform enables developers to move faster through predictability, structure, and security.
• 15% - Operations Oversight & Governance: Provide architectural guidance, standards, and escalation support to the GitHub SMO / support team. Review operational trends, metrics, and recurring issues to eliminate root causes through design, not manual intervention. Maintain clear ownership boundaries and escalation paths.
• 10% - Transition Stewardship & Continuous Improvement: Act as steward for GitHub-first delivery as Azure DevOps usage declines. Continuously evolve standards, guardrails, and integrations as GitHub capabilities, security requirements, and enterprise risk posture change. Prevent platform drift by proactively adapting to new GitHub features, security tooling, and AI capabilities.